22 ForOregonState.org/Stater R e s e aR c h THE SOCIAL ROBOT Humanoid robots will need social skills. College of Engineering researchers are here to help. BY > KEITH HAUTALA A generation ago, science fiction writers imagined a highly mechanized workplace of the future, where factories would hum with the spinning gears and servomotors of an army of robot workers. Many industrial and manufacturing occupations that had come to be seen as too physically demanding, dangerous or repetitive for humans to perform would be completely automated, the writers speculated. Freed from such drudgery, people
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